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84. Marianne. 



Flowers, middle-sized, full, globular, regular. 

 Petals, sloped inwards; of a deep pink. 



85. Chimcne. 



Flowers, middle-sized, double; pink in the centre, lilac 

 at the circumference. 



86. Cleonice. 



Flowers, full, middle-sized, well formed. 

 Petals, sloped inwards ; of a flesh-coloured pink. 



87. Small-flowering Dark Purple. 



Branches, short, straight, very slightly armed. 



Flowerstalks, hispid, glandulous. 



Tube of calyx, smooth, oblong, fusiform. 



Flowers, middle-sized, single, velvety ; vivid crimson. 



88. Ranunculus Noisette Rose. 

 Shrub, three or four feet high. 



Branches, slender, armed with a few crooked red 



thorns. 



Leaflets, three or five; oval-elongated, slightly toothed. 

 Flowers, in clusters of fifteen or twenty ; of a fine pink ; 



exhaling a scent resembling that of the Geranium 



Capitatum. 



89. Ever-blowing Noisette. 



Leaflets, five in number, oval-lanceolated, regularly 

 toothed; of a fine dark green. 



Flowers, very numerous ; in clusters, full and regular, 

 two inches broad; pink, having in the centre a 

 green bud, accompanied by leafy appendages. 



Monsieur Gels cultivates a beautiful sub- variety, of 

 which the external petals are pale pink, forming a regu- 

 larly rounded cup ; the central petals very short, united 



